Good question
 

As usual, Bogie comes up with the best question in this entire thread. :ho:

From your post
 

You probably should have gotten some gun safety instruction. Before getting a BB gun let alone a shotgun.

In my day, every boy had a BB gun... It was as common in the small town I grew up in as a pocket knife. :popcorn:

I will refer that post back to the Second Amendment,
But that's a discussion for another day.
Steve

No doubt a great question. I have another one. How would the Officers who show up first know the Victim from The Villan? I'll leave that to those who risked their lives their entire lives for the protection of our lives. Maybe some I.D. they could flash to the Officers? Just a thought!

I like evening the playing field. Instead of the Bad Guy preying on the Weak maybe, just maybe he or she would think twice if they knew they could be harmed by an unknown person in the target school.

Teachers will put their guns down.

They taught us in the academy, you never shoot to kill, you do shoot to stop the threat.

If it was my child or grandchild and they were the bad guy I would support the actions taken. This sounds much like a lot of attitudes today, do what you need to do UNLESS it is my kid, my property or any of my relatives. When I grew up our parents put our teachers in charge and trusted them to make the right decisions and sometimes that included getting our butts kicked by teachers. Today, discipline is not permitted. If a problem exists we need to send them to counseling. Parents don't accept responsibility for discipline and they won't delegate to those they entrust their kids to for up to 8 hours a day. Then when something happens, it's someone else's responsibilities. Arm the teachers, bus drivers and anyone else whose life can be in danger. That's why I carry.

I’ve seen that happen a lot in those news videos....right after they have been shot.
Your answer makes sense if the shooter is dead, what if he/she is still active? And all hell is breaking loose?

Carrying a weapon is self defense.
Last resort.

I don't see teachers running up and down the halls shooting.


As self defense, teachers would be in classrooms with students, behind closed doors.


As police clear the facility, they are announcing and identifying.


Training, not the wild west.

First of all what is adequate training? I received many hours of training but that did not make me comfortable to point my weapon at another human being.

Look back on many of the school shootings. What we really need is for the parents of the shooters to be held responsible for the firearms in their homes and then in the procession of a child. How many parents of the shooters have been held responsible? None, they all had such difficult children...….bull......they were bad, nonresponsive parents. So much of todays problems steam from the home environment.....but the blame always shifts elsewhere.

When you only have a hammer, every problem is a nail.

If a Hammer was coming at one of our Collective Grandchildren I would hope the Teacher that is fully TRAINED would just like the children to turn from a Nail to a SledgeHammer! We are just going around in circles. I get your point, I don't agree but I get your point.

Which is center mass, over and over..

Scott Beigel, a geography teacher at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School, probably wished he had a gun when he was shot and killed while trying to protect students from Nikolas Cruz.